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3 Compelling Reasons — Beyond the Law — to Expand Consumer Access to Personal Records

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Therefore, a patient’s full record can be trapped in multiple systems across a hospital or health system setting. Storing historical data and maintaining these out-of-production systems can put a financial burden on hospitals and health systems. In 2007, Tom joined the board of Harmony Healthcare IT and became CEO in 2015.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

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3M is said to consider sale of its healthcare IT division. is said to consider a possible divestiture of its healthcare information technology unit. The healthcare IT unit is located within 3M’s larger health group, which contributed about $9B of 3M’s 2021 revenue. Q2 HEADLINES. April 26: 3M Co.